Monday, November 23, 2009

Grace gets her Honours Badge!




Today Grace got her bronze honours badge. It is a real achievement for a Year 4 student to get this award. She really deserves it and we are all super proud of her.

swimming lessons

I went swimming it is so much fun because we get to wear flippers, it is the most exciting thing to do on a Monday evening. Because you get to go faster than people without flippers.
by Emma

Dancing

Dancing is really fun because we are now learning the show. The show is heaps of different musicals, they are Evita ,Annie ,Mission-on ,Shrek ,history ,Thriller and Jackson 5.
By Grace.m

The dog

One Monday Afternoon I went to the pet shop it was the worst day of my life once I went in it was like I couldn't come out, try guess what I saw, it was the cutest puppy in the world it was torture, it was so cute and fluffy.
By Timmy
On Saturday night my cousin Paris came over to my house for a sleep over as soon it was time to sleep she was starving to death.
by jarred

Monday, November 16, 2009





November 16 2009



a kid threw a rock the size of a mango at James' head.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Lunchtime Sandpit Fun


Everytime it is Room 13s time to go in the sand pit we make the most of it. We work together to make the biggest sand castle we can.
Check out how big we made it this week! Our challenge is to try and make it bigger every week.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Making Clay Faces


First we read the book clay faces.The whole group had to write how to make clay then we went to make clay faces.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Kapa haka sleep over tonight

Tonight is the kapa haka sleep over and everyone can’t wait until it comes it will be so exciting I can’t wait were going to practice from 4.30 to 5.30 then after were going to watch a movie then we might play spotlight then practice a little more then were going to have dinner I don’t know when were going to have dinner.

By Sam

P.S Im in kapa haka

Lopdell House


Today Room 13 went on a class trip to Lopdell House. After exploring the gallery and examining examples of claywork we headed downstiars to the workshop.

We looked at images of Kiwiana and then designed an egg cup.

When we had finished our designs we got stuck into our clay. IN 3 or so weeks our work will be dry and ready for us to use!

Check out our what we got up to.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Reciprocal teaching

Today room 14 taught us a Maori haka!

Check out what we did.

http://www.summerland.school.nz/Site/The_Rooms/Huia_Pod/Room_13_in_action.ashx

Monday, August 31, 2009

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News for the 1st September

Yesterday after school I went to my auntys house. I had to spend the night with her but my cousin was crying all night so I only got a few hours sleep.
Grace.m

Miss Edwards news- I had to sit through a first aid course on Saturday. It was intersting but a very long day. There was lots of sitting and listening. I am glasd that I have done it but missed my Saturday morning sleep in!

Sam's news-Tommorow will be a exciting day4 me because my grandma is coming from fiji with my mobile phone

today i was late because my dad was still in the shower jarreds news

Rafael's news- In the weekend i went to pizza hut and stayed there for dinner the pizza tasted really really really good and i mean really really good. by Timmy
on saturday i went to the snow and i hade to wake up at 3am and we hade to go at 3am and we went there by 930am and when i went there i hade to wear my school shoes because i dident have any snow boots and after a while my hand and my feet were freezing.

Liams news - last saturday I went to mt Ruapahu, Whakapapa . That saturday it was really bad but still some things were open . It started to get so bad that we almost went back inside our ski club.But we decided to have a hot chocolate at the cafe and we turned our backs for one minunete and it had cleared up completeley.Everything on the mountain was open except for one thing and we were skiing six and a half hours straight

Maristelles news- In the weekend well sataday, I went to my dads house, and I made such acubby and if you dont know what it is its like a tree house but inside. We went to the pools and it was so cold I was shivering it was like the north pole I know a bit to cold. And it was the best I had in ages

On the weekend my dad was being very unreasonable at the mall when we w anted to buy some thing he would just say no evan if I was going to buy it with my own money.By Rowan

on saturday i went to the snow and i hade to wake up at 3am and we hade to go at 3am and we went there by 930am and when i went there i hade to wear my school shoes because i dident have any snow boots and after a while my hand and my feet were freezing.On sunday
my brother simran and I went to the library. My brother got a doctor who book.Amrit

Yesterday when i played the great sport tennis it was funlike your playing with your dog . I hitted some tennis shots tat were hard and furious i was suspecting we will play games but we didnt but we did play one gamebut it was boring like you are in toilet for ten minutes thats my news by Kanishk



Monday, July 6, 2009

Rainbow's End

ART ATTACK!



On Thursday 2nd July all of the classes in the Huia pod gathered in the hall for their second round of ART ATTACK! We learnt how to do scrafetto. First we coloured our pages entirely with an explosion of colour using crayons and then we painted over our hard work with black paint. Once it had dried the fun part started and we got to scratch out different patterns. It was messy, loud and crazy but a whole lot of fun.

Wibbly Wobbly Jelly

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Room 13 at Rainbow's End


As part of our studies on the different forces and motion our class got to go to Rainbow's End!
Check out pictures from the day back at our Huia homepage. Click on Room 13 pictures.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Ruby Readers-Book review


Mothers Day

in the weekend we went to the shops and brought my mum a mothers day present we got her a bathroom spray can, four cups and a gardening book. My sister and I also made her a bracelet. on mothers day i made my mum and dad two cups of tea and our dad made dinner for her and we helped. our grandma brought us a cheese cake.  


By Liam

In The Weekend

In the weekend I slept  over at my friends house, well my dad I had to pac two bags! I went for two nights it was fun at first ... but then it got bad on mothers day Olivia & Jackson really got their mum mad, so mad that she got out of the car! and started to walk home, I  mist out on mothers day. On the plus side my mum had fun without me she hanged out with her friends for lunch. I felt so sad that I had to buy my mum a pot of flowers. In the end I felt happy                                                          

   by Maristelle 

Sunday, June 7, 2009

MONEY MONEY MONEY!




In maths this morning we counted money. Miss Edwards had a problem counting the money she had collected for our trip to Rainbows End so we helped her out. First we counted all the twenty dollar notes and then the $5 notes.

We now know that there are 2 tens in a $20 and so $40 there are 4 tens.

In a twenty dollar note there are 20 ones.

To make $100 you only need 5 $20 notes!

We had to count up in 10s, 20s and 5s.

We got to count coins and notes and cheques too!

It was fun because it was real money and we were learning some times tables too.



By Josh, Samantha, Kourbyn and Anjali

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Certificate recipients- Week 6


Well done to Samantha, Ruan, Sam and Shay for receiving classroom achievement certificates at this weeks Huia assembly.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

9 reasons why school rocks!!!!!
1. you only like school if you get a good teacher like Miss Edwards.
2. have good class mates  and friends.
3. lunchtime and school time.
4. morning tea and after school.
5. get to learn lots of stuff.
6. teachers and staff.
7. teacher aids.
8. school trips and playground.
9. sports.
Written by: Samantha

Monday, May 18, 2009

Breaking the Laws...



My weekend

On saturday my dad bought me a smack down vs raw 2009 . I’ve already unlocked more then 10 people . It was easy to unlock them because I used cheat codes . I also made me a an dragon fable account and adventure quest account . On dragon fable Im onto level 7 and on adventure quest Im on level 4 I don’t really go on my dragon fable or adventure quest account anymore.



By Sam T


Wednesday, May 13, 2009

FABULOUS CONTRAPTIONS

We only started using this site today. With this game we get to solve problems and learn about different forces.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/index.php


Peanut Butter Maths


We are learning about probability.
Check out our photo page to see us in action.

In the weekend I done nothing all day ! Really ! But I did play on the computer . I played on the PS3 and I played star-wars the complete saga you get to be a bounty hunter cool eh.



By Cameron.

In the weekend I had to get up at 7.00 so I could be at the netball courts by 7.40. I was really tired and I wanted to go back to bed. Out side it was freezing and I didn’t want to play netball if it meant playing in the rain. By the time I was there it was a little bit sunny. At first I didn’t like playing but then it got better. With 2 minutes left for our game it started hailing. But in the end we won!



Mothers day with Samantha

In the weekend it was mothers day I give my mum two CDs and my mum loved it  and my mums family  came over for mothers day and then we went to my Nana’s house  and gave her a mothers day  gift  and then went home and got ready for dinner and bed when me and my brother were reading  our books my books name is best friends and I love the book then my dad came down to say goodnight.


By Samantha

A weekend with Rowan

In the weekend it was mothers day on sunday so I drew my Mum  her a mothers day card and she liked it but my brother Jordan did two mothers day cards and even my little brother Caiden gave our Mum a mothers day card she liked them all and she had a good day so did we.

Saturday.

 On Saturday   I had soccer but my soccer was canceled  and I had too wait 

 two and a half hours an till I had to go to Cross Country running against all the other clubs of Cross Country running its about two and a half kilometers! the guy who came first was nine years old I came seventh my friend from the same club came fifth we had a lot of fun I got a bag of lolls but I gave them to my Mum because I did not like them and I had all ready got some at home. when I was waiting in the car park at the field I was going to play soccer on my Mum and my brothers Jordan and Caiden went shopping that is when my Mum got Caiden some lolls Jordan some lolls and me some lolls.she got my favorite type of lolls Mum brought Caidens favorite lolls and Jordans favorite lolls to. Sundays date was the 10th of may and Saturdays date was the 9th of may.   


Tiger Woods golf

On saturday I got to play Tiger Woods PGA 2009 it was awesome because I was getting to be both the players because my mum was on the phone. But it makes not very nice comments if you do a bad swing I got out of bounds 3 times I wanted to throw the remote into the ground but I got out eventually! So mostly I won. 


By Emma.k

In the weekennd Samantha and Chloe went to drama and dance together .

They had fun at drama and dance. After drama  and dance. 

we went to Samanthas  house  for a swim and a chocolate fish and some cold water .

Then Chloe went home.

By Chloe and Samantha

Sunday, May 10, 2009

http://www.funderstanding.com/coaster

Today in class we got to invent and test new roller coasters.

Remember the rules-
not too much speed, add obstacles to slow it down.

Next we are thinking about designing our own roller coaster including naming it and designing a funky carriage.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Monday, April 13, 2009

Barfoot and Thompson Storybook Competition 2009

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Holiday Homework

Holiday Reading Challenge
Over the holidays you must read!
Record what you read into your reading log. The people with substantial reading log entries will receive a chocolate surprise!

So get reading.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Mufti Day is on Wednesday!
Bring a gold coin donation to school and you get to wear your own clothes for the day.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Parent Info

Homework is given every week. It is about reinforcing concepts taught in class and aims not to cause stress at home as often it can.
As well as nightly homework, occasionally there will be an extra task that is based upon something that has popped up during the day.
Below is an outline of what is expected throughout the week.

MONDAY
Chunks- children are to find as many words as they can that contain the new chunk that has been explored in class.

TUESDAY
second chance for children to add to their list of chunk words.
Read for a least 15 minutes and record this into their reading log notebook
Spelling practice spelling of the new list words

WEDNESDAY
read for at least 15 minutes and record this into their reading log
Spellling practice

THURSDAY
Read for at least 15 minutes and record this into their reading logs
Spelling practice before the test tomorrow


We have been working hard on putting together our own picture book story for the Barfoot and Thompson Storybook competition.




Monday, March 23, 2009

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Room 13